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Frank ‘Pancho’ Rahming Primary School Track & Field Nationals set for May 21-23
THE Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture in conjunction with the Ministry of Education have officially launched the Frank “Pancho” Rahming Primary School Track and Field Nationals slated for May 21-23 at the original Thomas A Robinson Stadium.
Man admits to housebreaking gets 18 months jail
A MAN was sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday after he admitted to a housebreaking in Pinewood Gardens last week.
‘Vexatious litigation’ delayed rescue of starving dolphins
AGRICULTURE and Marine Resources Minister Jomo Campbell defended government’s efforts to rescue five dolphins from Blackbeard’s Cay.
Keric Rolle is leading the way for Bahamians
Keric Rolle is breaking barriers in the field of actuarial science, becoming one of a few Bahamians to attain the Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) designation.
Red-Line Athletics’ inaugural Field Events Classic on Saturday
WITH the tremendous success being achieved by the field competitors, as opposed to the track athletes, the Red-Line Athletics Track Club has decided to award them for their efforts.
North Eleuthera hit by 34-hour BPL outage
Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) finally restored service to North Eleuthera last night after the area suffered a more than 34-hour power outage due to generation failures at the Hatchet Bay Power Station.
Athletes qualify for the Paris Olympics
Hurdler Denisha Cartwright and sprinter Wanya McCoy produced qualifying performances for the Olympic Games in their respective collegiate meets, while quarter-milers Steven Gardiner and Wendell Miller pulled off victories in their professional meets.
Activist ‘cosmically disappointed’ with Gov’t over dolphins’ rescue
The environmentalist who led the campaign to close Blackbeard’s Cay yesterday asserted she is “cosmically disappointed” in the Government while branding the surviving dolphins’ rescue a “PR stunt”.
Get ready for Samuel P. Haven Jr High Schools Soccer Nationals next week
GET ready for the Ministry of Education, Technical and Vocational Training’s sixth Samuel P. Haven Jr High Schools Soccer Nationals next week at the Roscoe Davies Developmental Center at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.
All-white Pentecost Prayer Parade this Sunday seeks to “Heal the Land”
THE streets will be painted white this coming Sunday as churches across New Providence convene in solidarity and a spirit of worship for the second all-white Pentecost Prayer Parade.
“I don’t write songs, I hear Heaven” - Up-and-coming gospel artist finds success with first single
She has always been a worshipper at heart, so it was only natural for Frankelle Outten to choose the genre of gospel when she decided to become a singer.
Elite Ballers secure first NPWBA title
THE Elite Ballers deserve all of their flowers after finishing off the Foxxy Defenders 78-60 in what was a battle of the generations for the New Providence Women’s Basketball Association (NPWBA) championship hardware.
BPL ‘shambles’: We pay now or pay later
The Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) “shambles” will only get worse the longer critical reforms are delayed, an ex-Chamber chairman is warning, as he added: “We pay now or we pay later.”
Coroner’s court empanels jury for inquest into police-involved killing of Aliko Collins
A FIVE-PERSON jury was empanelled yesterday as the inquest into the 2017 police-involved killing of 21-year-old Aliko Collins in Pinewood Gardens began.
Anthonique Strachan suffers season-ending injury
JUST when it appeared that sprinter Anthonique Strachan was starting to round back into form of her old self, she was sidelined with another series of injuries that has put an end to her season.
‘One-stop solution’ to BPL woes re-floated
A “quick one-stop solution” for The Bahamas’ energy crisis was yesterday re-floated by a local attorney who argued it could resolve cost, reliability and environmental woes “within months”.
Cable hits back over Internet affordability
Cable Bahamas has hit back by arguing that this nation has “among the lowest and most affordable” entry-level broadband Internet prices in the Caribbean to help make its case for easing regulation.
Pathologist testifies Collins died of a single gunshot to the head
A FORENSIC pathologist said in the Coroner’s Court yesterday that Aliko Collins, a man police killed in 2017, died from a single gunshot wound to the head.
